what they said

"This album is an actual physical landscape. There are places & details & fragments of a real life rather than an imaginary life."
- Bono on Songs of Innocence

did you know

The Unforgettable Fire album title is a reference to "The Unforgettable Fire"—an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The band saw the exhibit in November 1983 in Japan while on the War Tour.